Well I have shot 2 bunnies with the .410 in my yard after coming home in the evening last week seeing them on my driveway. Both quick kills. Tonight I went out to get the ute ready (heading to Melbourne at 2am) and saw some yellow eyes in the scrub in my yard so I went and got the .204 since I was certain it was a predator and didn't think I'd get close enough with a shotty and it copped a .32gr z-max in the chest from about 50yds It was chewing one of my rabbits from the other week. Shot them all using a Led Lenser H7.2 headlamp. Was happy with that.
Anyway keep busting bunnies and cats and foxes etc.
Hunting Big Game in the Backyard!
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Hunting Big Game in the Backyard!
by » 09 Jun 2017, 10:06 pm
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"Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals and happiness." Thomas Jefferson
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MalleeFarmer - Sergeant
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Re: Hunting Big Game in the Backyard!
by » 09 Jun 2017, 11:00 pm
Grouse. Nothing gives me more pleasure than seeing a dead cat. Except sex that is.
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Hunt safe.
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Re: Hunting Big Game in the Backyard!
by » 09 Jun 2017, 11:51 pm
That's one healthy looking, well fed puss cat!
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Re: Hunting Big Game in the Backyard!
by » 10 Jun 2017, 2:50 am
Yep had mixed feelings about the cat only because we have so many mice about at the minute but I figured it won't make a dent in the mouse population and it will just make more cats to starve or eat natives once the mice do eventually die off.
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Re: Hunting Big Game in the Backyard!
by » 10 Jun 2017, 4:21 am
Yep. Just think of the buggers as toxoplasmosis machines and knock as many of them as you can!
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Re: Hunting Big Game in the Backyard!
by » 10 Jun 2017, 4:43 am
Phone 60 minutes. Not often you shoot a panther proving their existence in the Australian bush.
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Re: Hunting Big Game in the Backyard!
by » 10 Jun 2017, 7:56 am
ACA will probably pay you $50k for the story!
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Re: Hunting Big Game in the Backyard!
by » 10 Jun 2017, 8:03 am
Time well spent 
This hard living ain't as easy as it used to be!!!
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Re: Hunting Big Game in the Backyard!
by » 10 Jun 2017, 8:20 am
Gwion wrote:ACA will probably pay you $50k for the story!
At that price it's would be worth a go!
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Re: Hunting Big Game in the Backyard!
by » 10 Jun 2017, 8:21 am
MalleeFarmer wrote:Gwion wrote:ACA will probably pay you $50k for the story!
At that price it's would be worth a go!
Tell em it's just 6 months old.
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Re: Hunting Big Game in the Backyard!
by » 10 Jun 2017, 11:22 pm
Gwion wrote:That's one healthy looking, well fed puss cat!
It probly had a collar with a bell before the pic was taken,,,,,,,,,,,
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Re: Hunting Big Game in the Backyard!
by » 11 Jun 2017, 2:10 pm
Die Judicii wrote:Gwion wrote:That's one healthy looking, well fed puss cat!
It probly had a collar with a bell before the pic was taken,,,,,,,,,,,
Nah just kidding. Wife's cat was on a deck chair out the back. No collar lots of mice for it to keep fat on.
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Re: Hunting Big Game in the Backyard!
by » 13 Jun 2017, 8:38 am
Nice pose on the cat too!
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Weatherby VG S2 in .223 in Boyds Thumbhole, Leupold VX3 3.5-10x50
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Re: Hunting Big Game in the Backyard!
by » 21 Jun 2017, 10:52 pm
Gwion wrote:That's one healthy looking, well fed puss cat!
Bloody hell Gwion, glad you are not my Doctor, "healthy" ? the bloody thing has a .204 bullet in it !
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Re: Hunting Big Game in the Backyard!
by » 22 Jun 2017, 12:20 am
Tiger650 wrote:Gwion wrote:That's one healthy looking, well fed puss cat!
Bloody hell Gwion, glad you are not my Doctor, "healthy" ? the bloody thing has a .204 bullet in it !
**WAS healthy; pre-bullet.
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